First Day in the “Marvelous City,” Rio
Patty surprised me with an amazing Christmas gift: a helicopter tour of Rio. For mid-summer in the tropics, the weather was perfect, with no clouds in the sky and pure sunshine. We had the Bell JetRanger III for a 20 minute tour of the best parts of the city, including the beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana, the Sugarloaf mountain, the Maracana football stadium, and Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado mountain.
On my first day in Brazil, Rio didn’t disappoint. Some images we took from the helicopter:
Cristo Redentor (“Christ the Redeemer”)
Pao de Acucar (“Sugarloaf Mountain”)
Maracana Stadium, built for the 1950 World Cup (seats 100,000 crazy spectators)